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Poll - MySets and Custom Modes, Oly & Pana

Started Mar 11, 2018 | Polls thread
Guy Parsons
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Re: Beats menu diving
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Yes, since adopting MySets on the Mode dial I find that I hardly ever use the SCP or shooting menus, and only rarely need to dive into the custom menus. Life is so easy.

Denjw wrote:

Yes I use them all the time. On my E-M1MkII I have 3 shooting scenarios setup and assigned to Custom Modes on the dial.

My 4 are basically different upper limits for auto ISO along with aperture changes and metering and some other odd things. Using auto ISO lke that works for me if I come from a dim museum into the sunlight and take a shot - the auto ISO sorts it out, until I realise my mistake and change back to the good light MySet. Way less mistakes and delays before shots.

Then I have all the basics covered and can tweak the most variable settings on the fly as required using the SCP or EVF.

What I miss from the E-M1 Mysets are an extra Custom Mode and the ability to assign them to Function buttons. On the E-M1 it was so easy to switch from one Myset to another with a push of a button.

Yes, Mk2 went backwards in not being able to assign to buttons or to assign to anywhere on the Mode dial. Plus of course only 3 instead of 4.

The relentless progress to "simpler menus" to please all the complainers will mean that our cameras will get dumber and dumber.

Regards..... Guy

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